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About the Author
AzatMardan works in technology leadership at Indeed.com,
the world leader in job search. Azat is a JavaScript/Node.
js expert with dozens of published online courses on Node
University, edX, and Udemy, and books including much
praised top-sellers React Quickly (Manning, 2017), Full Stack
JavaScript (Apress, 2015), Practical Node.js (Apress, 2014),
Pro Express.js (Apress, 2014) and many others.
Two of Azat’s self-published books, Rapid Prototyping
with JS and Express.js Guide, became bestsellers on Amazon in
their categories before being revised and published by Apress.
In 2016 alone, Azat spoke at over a dozen tech conferences, including JSConf, Node
Summit, NDC, Node Interactive, ConFoo, ForwardJS, All Things Open, GDG DevFest,
Great Wide Open, and others. Over the years, Azat has shared a speaking platform with
prominent software gurus such as Douglas Crockford, Christian Heilmann, Jeff Atwood,
Dan Shaw, Mikeal Rogers, John Papa, Axel Rauschmayer, Kyle Simpso, Samer Buna,
James Halliday, Maxwell Ogden, Rey Bango, and many others.
Azat is an ex-Technology Fellow at Capital One, a top U.S. bank. At various times,
Azat has worked as software engineer and technology leader in different organizations,
including U.S. federal government agencies, Fortune 200 companies, small startups,
and medium-sized corporations. During his career, Azat has worked on teams with
prominent tech people such as Raquel Vélez (first engineer at npm), Jim Jagielski
(founder of Apache Foundation), Bobby Calderwood (contributor to ClojureScript), and
Mitch Pirtle (co-founder of Joomla!).
Azat has taught in-person and face-to-face over a thousand software engineers at
prominent U.S. and global corporations including Cisco, Walmart, Starbucks, Michael
Kors, Salesforce, 20th Century Fox/Fox Studios, VMWare, CapitalOne, OnDeck,
Northwestern Mutual, HubSpot, UC Davis, The University of Arizona, Intuit, DocuSign,
Intuit, Macy’s, Twillio, The Orchard, and Apple.
In his spare time, Azat enjoys a cup of Americano with ghee while recording videos
for Node University (
https://node.university), where thousands of developers
sharpen and master their Node skills.